Student Success

You’ve Tried Everything…Or Have You?

Posted by admin on February 20, 2020

Beverly Amer, CMA, Principal Lecturer, ACC & ISM, President’s Distinguished Teaching Fellow

With all the attention directed at retention and student success, it would seem we’ve tried everything to move the needle towards institutional and ABOR goals. Yet there may be one piece we’ve missed, and it could make the difference: coaching.

So what is coaching? Isn’t it the same as advising? Actually, no, according to Donelle Hogarth, Director of Training at Lifebound, a national higher education student success coaching organization.… Read more

Preview of Teaching Day – January 9, 2020

Posted by admin on December 19, 2019

Monica Lininger, PhD, LAT, ATC

Associate Professor, Physical Therapy and Athletic Training
Teaching Academy Member

When we as faculty prepare for our courses, we start with the methods needed to transmit the content to the learner. What do we want the students to know by the end of the course? Whereas for our students, this might be the initial exposure to the content. We need to understand that our typical students have played nearly 10,000 hours of video games before they… Read more

The Compassionate University

Posted by admin on November 26, 2019

Chrissina Burke, Senior Lecturer, Anthropology

Dawn Hawley, Professor, Geography, Planning, and Recreation

We know that life is stressful, especially given the number of how-to articles to help us “destress” or “meditate mindfully” or “build work-life balance” in a basic Google search. Even considering our increasingly stressful and overbooked lives, why do we continue to give assignments our students call “busy work?” Why are we expecting our colleagues to respond to emails quickly? What aspects of our lives are causing us to… Read more

Truth is More Engaging than Fiction:  The Power of Relevance

Posted by admin on October 9, 2019

Michael T. Lebec PT, Ph.D., is a Professor for the Department of Physical Therapy & Athletic Training, NAU Mountain Campus.

As an established professor teaching in the NAU Doctor of Physical Therapy (DPT) Program, I have positioned myself so I am able to teach courses that are mainly my choosing.  However, this was not the case when I was a junior faculty member.  My initial teaching load included multiple courses in which the senior faculty were not highly interested.  In part,… Read more

Examples for Improving Faculty and Staff Interactions with Students

Posted by admin on February 14, 2019

Len Hostetter, Assistant Professor Of Practice

Tinto’s Student Integration Model was discussed both at Teaching Day this year (2019) and during a subsequent meeting of the Teaching Academy. One dimension of the model that is particularly important to me is the informal dimension of “Faculty and Staff Interactions with Students.”  There are many things that we, as teachers, already do or can easily do to improve our interactions with students, in order to establish and maintain authentic relationships with each… Read more